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N8235W

Adams Gary W ROTORWAY EXEC-90

Valid Virginia

N8235W is an Adams Gary W ROTORWAY EXEC-90, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Evington, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 1995 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 5, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Adams Gary W
Model
ROTORWAY EXEC-90
Serial number
5041
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
1996
Transponder code
AB3F1C (octal 52637434)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 12, 1995
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 5, 1997
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00155402

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Adams Gary W
Type
Individual
Address
5805 Colonial Hwy
Evington, VA 24550-1887

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 3

1991-09-10Beech F33A · exported to Germany · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
1967-03-09Piper PA-28-180 · Valid registration
—Piper PA-28RT-201T · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8235W, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Adams Gary W, an individual, certificate issued July 12, 1995, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 5, 1997, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5041 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8235W was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Beech F33A (serial CE1608, cancelled September 10, 1991); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-2922, cancelled March 9, 1967); Piper PA-28RT-201T (serial 28R8031129, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N8235W: Accident on June 13, 1999 at Evington, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC99LA148Accident on June 13, 1999 at Evington, VA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Adams ROTORWAY EXEC-90 · operated under 091

The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for a run on landing. A factor was the dirt bank.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC99LA148 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data